· Private foundation
Richard and Catherine H Gottfred Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $4k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Leap Learning Systems | $55,000 |
| Hear Scholarship Foundation | $1,625 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $1,000 |
| Glenview Club Scholarship Foundatio | $1,000 |
| PAWS Chicago | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LLLeap Learning Systems6× · 2018–2024 · $410k · revenue +106% · 31% of their budget
Northwestern University2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +33%- AFAID FOR WOMEN INC3× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- BSBright Startone grant, 2021 · $20k
- KSKensington Schoolone grant, 2019 · $5k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +32%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university continues the pioneering work of alfred adler by graduating responsible practitioners for community engagement.
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Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Leap Learning Systems ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds HEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds My Sister's House Inc ↗
- Who funds ASNIYA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sunbird Initiative ↗
- Who funds HISPANA INC ↗
- Who funds Educare of West DuPage ↗
- Who funds EL HOGAR DEL NINO ↗
- Who funds PARK SHORE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard and Catherine H Gottfred Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Catherine H Gottfred Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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